Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley said playing nine SEC opponents plus Florida State each year would be a challenge. But he is willing to listen.

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David Jones
| FLORIDA TODAY

SEC athletic directors tackled the issue of whether to add a ninth league contest in football at the spring meetings. And while things are far from settled, there is nothing that seems possible to stop Florida's annual meeting with Florida State.

"We went around that room, I think there were a lot of different opinions," Gators athletic director Jeremy Foley said on Wednesday. "One thing that we've asked for - and I think we're going to get - is a sample. What does a nine-game schedule look like? I get, like everybody does, the challenges. And certainly from Florida's perspective, to play nine ...